Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been nothing significant to report. The main result of the conference is the calling of a "citizens' conference which is to report to a commission appointed to draw up a new constitution." But with Tuchun* flying at the throat of Tuchun, and no Tuchun strong enough to rule the others, the mere thought of a constitution seems as out of place as Jonah in the whale's belly. No Tuchun can, much less will, swallow such a big pill...
...function of our universities," says Mr. Glenn Frank in an article on the part of state universities in politics in the May Century Magazine, "is the training of a race of unofficial statesmen." While the knowledge of state government and its functions resides in the universities, the power to rule remains in the hands of practical politicians. Mr. Frank proposes "to drive knowledge and power abreast" by bringing learning into closer touch with the current of public life...
...Pacific Mail complaint was "in violation of the rules of the court in that the bill is lengthy, prolix, verbose, full of scandalous and impertinent matter, conclusions of law, opinions and other matters repugnant to the rule of the court." So, at least, said Chauncey G. Parker counsel for the U. S. Shipping Board, in his answering brief...
...resolutions were then moved; one calling upon the Government to accept the offer of C. R. Das, a leader of the Indian Swaraj (home rule) movement, to cooperate with the Indian Government; the other, a motion expressing the belief that the Sudan question (TIME, Oct. 6) should be settled by the League of Nations and that Britain should give Egypt full independence...
...last half century. Statesmen like Woodrow Wilson, John Hay; men of affairs like Lord Ribblesdale, Theodore Roosevelt; actors, actresses like Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Ellen Terry; authors, educators, beauties, generals, industrialists. Though he announced in 1903 that he would paint no more portraits, he occasionally broke his rule, twice to make it possible for future generations to scrutinize the incomparable countenance of John D. Rockefeller...